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August and Everything After
Lame headline, I know. Maybe I shouldn’t admit to being a Counting Crows fan (at least their early stuff). Or that I once framed a picture of Adam Duritz and me, standing together outside of the Woodlands Pavilion with two of my best friends. Maybe it diminishes what little credibility I have. (I have also been known to be a Dave Matthews fan, and as I have mentioned here before, incidentally, a few years ago, I also met a drunken yet garrulous Dave, sitting in the Mirror Room of the Hotel Bentley). But Duritz was a nice enough guy, despite his…
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Jonathan Goins Fails His District, Fails Alexandria, and Kills His Own Political Future
Upperdate (to borrow a term from Jeffrey): The responses I have received from this post have run the entire gamut. People have e-mailed me personally to say, “Thanks for saying what needed to be said,” and others have publicly suggested that I was unnecessarily and unfairly targeting Mr. Goins. I am not surprised in the least that Mr. Goins has his defenders; the man has nearly 5,000 friends on Facebook. I remember the first time I met Mr. Goins. It was at a community meeting at the Broadway Resource Center. I was immediately impressed by him. He was young, confident,…
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Hodges-Podges
1. I understand I was a close runner-up for this year’s Ashley Morris Award at the annual Rising Tide conference. As I said today on the Twitter, holy moly, it’s just an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as Ashley. I stuck the Greg Peters-designed and Dirty Coast-produced FYYFF sticker on the front of my desktop. Every single time I write a post on this website, I am confronted with Ashley’s simple and sagacious words of defiance. Months before he passed, I exchanged a couple of e-mails with Ashley; he added my website to his blogroll. I will…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
